Pipe work I did over the Summer
 

So my former welding instructor got me and a friend 2 weeks of per-diem work going on repiping a bottling plant.
Since I never post any of what I do, and JD is a cock sucking faggot... Here's some shots...

Most of this is 316L stainless to appease the FDA. I am not ashamed to show you my shitty welding... I frankly suck at stick, have since day 1, I just don't get it. For anyone who searchs youll also find some fairly fugly (as in JD girlfriend material) 2F fillet weld pictures from both when I was learning, and from helping afew people on this forum.
One thing I was VERY proud of this summer is that I have ALWAYS had trouble making large weave passes with TIG as a cap weld. My wrists and fingers are bad from years of being a great drummer. I find it awkward to walk the cup far enough to make big weaves. Im also right handed, and absolutely can not weld with certifiable quality with my left hand. That means no 6GR pictures (45* angle groove welds on pipe, restricted). Ive tried it many times, I just can't do it. I live with it LMAO


I am also not ENGLOID.
Engloid's a cool ass dude. He gave me good advice a year and two years ago when I was getting into it. I want ZERO compairison to him. He's very good and has atleast 8 years of welding experience on me... So suck ------- cock I don't want to hear it.

We'll start with some stick welding pictures from some competitions. Most of the welds are general E7018's.

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I do very little ALU welding. Here's afew test plates and the beginnings of an intake manifold plenum.
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Flux-Core-Baby! I find 3F flux touchy... But it doesn't get tons better than this. Lost my cleaned up pictures :'(
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So here's a job I liked. Just general fabrication... Wound up being the head welder on my shift AND the manager in charge of all the welder/fitters, painters & afew general hands. Place made chairs for semi trucks & tractors. Average time to fit, assemble & weld a complete chair like this was around 3m30s. Good guys could get around 3:10-15. I re-arranged the entire assembly & welding order. Dropped my time to 2:40-2:40 INCLUDING time to hang the chair - 15seconds not normally counted!
Welded with 35 wire, 25-26v @ 700in/min. Yes... It takes a quick hand to not burn through 1/16-3/16" material welding that hot and that fast.
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One more wire. Per-diem job below. This is 317, 35 wire, mid 25v @ 550-600in/min.
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So we spent 2-3 weeks doing some work. I did all the welding. He did all the sorting, cleaning, fitting, tacking & printing... The most important parts! Mad props to meh boy Tony.
To start with. Weave passes... I am EXTREMELY proud to have finally gotten them down pat. It took an assload of work after-hours for me to get where Im actually happy with my work and its consistent. You know it use to be 100% passable, but really didn't reflect the kind of visual quality I knew I could put out otherwise.

It probably took 6 or 7 pieces just like this, working by myself after hours to get it. Here's a practice piece. You can EASILY see that while the welds are obviously fine, they are also obviously inconsistent.
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How'd it turn out???
Test weld:
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Not a god damned mother ------- flaw ya ---- ass bitches!

Needless to say it was a skill I had to learn for the job so...
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How bout some copper-nickle?
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Sigh definately not Engloid... Looks aight, but too inconsistent in throat height for me! His are like, perfect :(

More CU-NI?
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Blah steel, anyone could do it.
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Suck the 316 beoytch!
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316L filler sure turns pwetty colors!
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One thing I was just so unhappy about on this weld was that I had alot of trouble tieing my start & stop back in. If you look down the weld you can see a weave in it. That's because I fucked it and had to grind an anus hair's worth back out :'(

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Not thrilled about how I tied these top welds in either. Sigh for random -----ups. :'( Was pushing beying alittle shy on the left most weld too, not sure why???


This was a biiiiiiig pipe to weld around. We both took on this one, halfzies.
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LOOK AT THE WET ---- FULL-PEN WELD ON THIS ROOT PASS. BOOOYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!



Can Toysrme work a CNC pipe welder??? Yes... After several fuckups and a solid hours worth of adjusting!
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Cool machines.






For anyone that wants a manifold please call.... Wier, or CS. I don't make many so dont ask.
I had alot of good wire work, and afew manifolds but about the time I swapped from my old vx8300 to a new LG Dare my 2g SD card trashed itself. Even Active's Undelete 7 couldn't bring much back. <cries like a gaping vagina>

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man take some of the pipe in the background and send it to me....clean welds man

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Looks great bro. The HUGE thing is that the welds you're posting now are lightyears ahead of older stuff I've seen. 8)

And you got it man- consistency is the tough one. But dude they're looking great.

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thanks, mostly my tig has been like that for a long while. i simply never post work here aside from the first few things i passed in school, and maybe some half asleep 2am welds on random metal using god knows what and a china welder just to make some points.



and to make some points, if you notice the last CNC weld, and the weld where i was welding it in 3rds and had to weave to tie back in. that is as far apart as you want to take your pattern. (the dimes) any wider than that and youll get dinged for it not being tight enough. so try to keep your patterns an acceptible size. (newbies make the huge patterns... its all show easy)

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Making me proud, bro. The cup walking looks nice.

I'd love to teach welding for a living. I did teach once, but it wasn't a long time, and I was really rushed on it, rather than being given the time to teach a lot of stuff. The problem is that teaching usually doesn't pay all that good and the jobs are usually taken by people that talked a good game to an office person, or something like that.

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omg welding props from Engloid, almost as good as the sex im having with the 19yo married milf!

Yeah I love teaching too. The next door neighboor's kid and all his buddies have been suffering with N/A and I set them straight. There's four of them taking HS welding classes and then I just help with with tig & stick some afternoons. Lots of fun.

IDK my teacher was extremely good. He can STILL weld better than I can... Yet he can do it by wrapping his hands around someone else's. In-Freaking-sane! holding your hands, insane. Was a CWI and constantly doing alot of outside school work for everyone going through the state for help. Companies, individuals, etc. Not sure what he makes but he took two of us to do a repair on a large die press. Took 36'ish hours with another CWI on hand and that companie's best welder. We all made around $750 for it and he made... He didn't say, but his wife had a new Altima by the end of the week and he had a new 07 Tundra the week after!


I wanna be a CWI eventually. Seems like the way to go.

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" 2g SD card trashed itself. Even Active's Undelete 7 couldn't bring much back. <cries like a gaping vagina>"

I bet I can get it back. Send it to me, active undelete 7 has nothing on what I use. Think gov grade program ;). Pm me if you want me to try.

BTW you welds look GOOD!!!

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good looking ---- nog

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i hope you and engloid make decent money on this stuff. you certainly deserve it. i'd love to spend a day with either of you guys just to learn. anyone want to make a $1000? i'd pay that for a day lesson even though it probably wouldn't teach me enough.

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nice welding with the stick in the 1st pics.. still trying to get mine that way 8) stick is one tricky business